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[W.I.P. 6.5] Poppy - Tackle the botlane down

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Spells:

Exhaust

Flash

Items

Starting Items #1

Items on first back

Core Items

Boots Options

Pick a final item

Ability Order

Poppy Passive Ability

Introduction

Hello everyone,
I am FidoWolfy, I am an EUW player, and I have been playing lol a lot since s4, even tho I started during s1.
I am a main support since I started playing the game, I love the feeling of peeling the adc and giving him kills so he'll just get stronger and stronger.
I love seeing exotic picks, and I thought when came out: She would make a wonderful support, aye.
I may not have the best ideas and tips to give here, but I wanted to share some of them here.

Don't forget to comment and rate this guide to help me out about this!

Let's get started! :

is an incredibly fun champion to play since her rework, she can make plays with her
She's one hell of a champion for the early game! Playing with her and a premade, I usually go for the first blood at 2-3 mins or so with a timed flash + Exhaust/Ignite and the carry following in.
has extremly good peeling skills with her , her and her .
She became one of the best at disengaging with this ultimate of her. She might not be the queen like , but sending ennemies back to their base really help when you're in trouble!.

Now we're at it: Let's get started!

PS: Don't be like. Don't forget to change runes and masteries.

Pros / Cons

PROS

+ Really strong early game with a lot of kill potential during laning phase.
+ Doesn't consumne a lot of mana early on.
+ Can proc really easily targon, or poke with her passive , even leading to bait as the ennemy may want to step on it to crush your potential shield.
+ Has powerful peeling potential with almost all of her skillset.
+ Strong tank, powerful passive allowing trades easily.
+ Powerful late game potential with her abilities scaling off ennemies' max HP with , capable of making picks with her or

CONS

- Weak to poke during early game.
- If you fail a , you'll get yourself in trouble and open to poke.
- Her blocks only one dash, meaning some champions like or can still get to your carries if you can't manage to deny them when they're blocked.
- Her ultimate is a powerful tool, but really hard to use as it'll often lead to punishing your own team by sending back ennemies you shouldn't have.
- Doesn't have a powerful teamfight engage tool like or , so you may rely either on picking ennemy carries, or waiting for an engage of one of your teammates.

Summoner's Spell

This is a must-have. May it be running away or engaging using a surprise flash + in a wall, I can't but only recommend this summoner spell as a must-have.

I like this spell because it's always useful in any situation. May it be to escape a gank, lower the burst of an assassin or catch easily someone running away. This is really my favorite spell as a support.

I don't often take this one, but it is useful as to secure early kills. Up to you whether you want to pick Ignite or Exhaust.

Masteries

Runes

I like to go for as it allows your to go easily around people so you can stun them in walls.

It's one kind of runes that you will always be happy to have all game long. They're really expensive, thought.

Greater Mark of Armor Penetration

Coupled with your nice early damages, some mark of Armor penetration are nice to gain even more damages. Those are classics one for supports anyway as it gives better harrass or trades early game.

Classic , allowing you to take less damages during trade and being more resilient during laning phase.

Classic , still. A lot of support deals magic damage during lane, those allows you to go during laning phase more fluently.

Items

Here comes the best part, items!

Starting items

As a tanky support, the best to go with is , as it'll give you nice lane sustain for the early levels, and your needed gold income, coupled with 3 pots and a ; else, you can start with , a to help your jungler, but only one pote. Up to you!

Prefered items on first back

Depending on how goes your laning phase, the amount of gold you bring back changes everytime (duh).
Sadly, there is no rule from here onward. Depending of the ennemy team's midlaner and jungler, you may want to rush as your first item, if you can. I usually follow this pattern:

Does the ennemy team have a powerful ganking Jungler/Mid Laner?

YES

Rush , unless it's a ,,, then you can buy your Targon's brace first for a better gold income, then buy your (replace the with , thought!)). After your , go for a Targon's brace, then face of the mountain, the active can save your adc in a trade, or a gank!

NO

Then you are free to upgrade your Targon's brace as a first item to increase your gold income and have faster itemization.

Do NOT rush your face of the mountain over your !

Core Items

By the mid game - late game, you should have at least face of the mountain, and at least . Do not forget your and/or as midlaners often prefer the now for the increased vision and control on the map. Dewarding objectives is really essential at any point in the game!

I usually build my with a lot of Movement speed items, it helps a lot at warding and catching ennemies off guard.

is a powerful item as it gives you good defensives stats, a powerful passive if you rush toward a tower and an active that drives people crazy!

Alternative Items

is a powerful item as it allows you to remove one cc on one of your teammate or yourself, as long as it is either a silence, slow, root, stun, taunt or fear. It also gives mana regen and magic resist, really good on a powerfull cc-reliant ennemy champion.

gives your team a nice aoe magic resist boost. The active allows you to shield them for a short duration with a small shield, still good to go against an ignite/dot.

gives you nice health stats (watch out for tho) and a pretty nice active that gives you and your team a movement speed buff as long as you run toward the ennemy team or an ennemy turret.

It's a powerful offensive item, tho it's not really the best as to catch people. The slow mechanic in lol is not multiplicative, neither additive, it works as "the biggest slow is the one that works on the ennemy", so it may not be useful for you to have ' slow and the one from ; the passive is really cool, tho, with nice stats.

It's all up to you now!

Boots

I think boots are one of the most important item you chose during the game. Depending on how you want to play, you may want to either pick for the tenacity, or for the movespeed + slow resist bonus, or for the passive movespeed it gives when out of combat, so that you can ward more easily.

For the enchant, I really love as it makes you the princess of disengagement. It's like a small 's passive! I don't get why people don't build this more often.

Skill Sequence

Unique Skills

Team Work

Lane Synergie / Countering

Laning Phase

A nice thing to note is that when you want to go for a trade, you can throw your shield on a creep about to die so that you proc the 's passive: spoil of war, this will kill the minion and automatically return poppy's bucklet to her

Mid game

Your passive, coupled with and will allow you to rush ennemies and catch them when they'll least expect it, slowing them with 's passive, often leading to a catch with .

Always Remember: Any ennemies you manage to catch is an ennemy you won't have to bother about during a teamfight!